Rëâdīńg wõrdš wîth ōrńåmêńtš: is there a cost?

Frontiers in Psychology

Psychology

Melanie Labusch¹  Manuel Perea¹  Jon Andoni Duñabeitia² 

[1] Centro de Investigación Nebrija en Cognición (CINC), Universidad Antonio de Nebrija, Madrid, Spain;Departamento de Metodología and ERI-Lectura, Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain;Centro de Investigación Nebrija en Cognición (CINC), Universidad Antonio de Nebrija, Madrid, Spain;Department of Languages and Culture, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway;

关键词: word recognition;    diacritics;    word superiority effect;    reading;    text clarity;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1168471

 received in 2023-02-17, accepted in 2023-04-14,  发布年份 2023

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

IntroductionRecent research has reported that adding non-existent diacritical marks to a word produces a minimal reading cost compared to the intact word. Here we examined whether this minimal reading cost is due to: (1) the resilience of letter detectors to the perceptual noise (i.e., the cost should be small and comparable for words and nonwords) or (2) top-down lexical processes that normalize the percept for words (i.e., the cost would be larger for nonwords).MethodsWe designed a letter detection experiment in which a target stimulus (either a word or a nonword) was presented intact or with extra non-existent diacritics [e.g., amigo (friend) vs. ãmîgô; agimo vs. ãgîmô]. Participants had to decide which of two letters was in the stimulus (e.g., A vs. U).ResultsAlthough the task involved lexical processing, with responses being faster and more accurate for words compared to nonwords, we found only a minimal advantage in error rates for intact stimuli versus those with non-existent diacritics. This advantage was similar for both words and nonwords.DiscussionThe letter detectors in the word recognition system appear to be resilient to non-existent diacritics without the need for feedback from higher levels of processing.

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